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What Would Mr. Roper Say?

Who would have guessed that 36 years after she helped introduce “jiggle TV” as part of the original “Three’s Company” cast (and decades after she first touted the body-shaping benefits of the ThighMaster), Suzanne Somers would have been recruited by The Wall Street Journal to offer criticism of the Affordable Care Act? Her article, “The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme,” in which Ms. Somers cited the Canadian health care system as a cautionary tale and quoted (somewhat inaccurately, it appears) Churchill and Lenin, quickly caught the attention of the Twittersphere.

An earlier version of a tweet in this column misstated the name of its writer. As her Twitter handle correctly noted, she is Jillian C. York, not Chillian J. Yikes! (That is a pseudonym she created for Halloween).